Linda Ann Strang

Four Poems by Betty Stanton Read four poems by Betty Stanton, our fifth biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about "Vein Song."

I'm the biweekly featured poet at the Philly Poetry Chapbook Review. phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...
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I AM CO-EDITING THIS 🌊💗 Do you ever struggle to place your longer essays or fiction pieces? So do we. So we decided to create an anthology all about celebrating the unique joys & opportunities of long prose.

Subs open 3/15-5/15!! Come wander way downstream with us.

Idiot plot In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is “kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot" (11:26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case. 2)

MAGA is an #idiotplot

Photo of two white women, one standing the other in a wheelchair with a wheel with colourful imagery, both are in a brightly coloured interior

Known as Izzy Wheels, Izzy and Ailbhe Keane, sisters from Ireland, are transforming wheelchairs into a form of artistic self-expression. Izzy was born with Spina Bifida and has used a wheelchair all of her life #WomensArt

Black and white illustration featuring a forest setting with central hippo like creature, hedgehog in the foreground and birds flying overhead

Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945) #Womensart

Poster with text in black and white

One of the iconic posters of the Guerrilla Girls, US artists devoted to fighting sexism in the art world since 1985 #Womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

Poster style artwork with the word 'March' as a heading and images of 8 houses and a quote from Sylvia Plath at the bottom

Contemporary US artist Grace Yencer #Womensart

Three black and white prints featuring Black women by different artists

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915[– 2010), Samella Lewis (1923 – 2022), African American women printmakers who influenced the world with their art #WomensHistoryMonth

By Blow by Linda Ann Strang | redrosethorns publications | gender-sexuality Discover a compelling story on the power of names. Dive into a tale of rebellion, heritage, and identity, exploring the story of the power of names. redrosethorns publishes writing centred around men...

I have my first CNF publication at #RedRoseThorns.
Available here: www.redrosethorns.com/post/by-blow

Artwork of scene looking down the inside of an arched polytunnel with door in tbe center background, pink and red poppies are to the right and a red watering can and other plants to the left

'Polytunnel poppies' by Pamela Grace, a contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, south west Scotland #WomensArt

Painting of a woman lying on a floor in a room as rainbow like streaks of energy enter through a window

Kate Mitchell,
Invoking the spirit of art to help complete this work, 2022, Australian artist
#WomensArt

Black woman with an electric guitar smiling next to a microphone

🎸 Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), legendary US singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist who played rock'n'roll long before anyone else, a pioneer in music #womensart 🎸

Artwork featuring two similar looking white women with long dark hair swimming in pink costumes, one is partly out of the surface while the other dives down beneath the water

Fom the 'Water Women' series by Sonia Alins, contemporary Spanish artist and illustrator #WomensArt

Painting featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman under turquoise water just under the surface with eyes closed

Samantha French, US contemporary painter known for her underwater portraits #WomensArt

“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.”

- US artist
Carrie Mae Weems

#womensart

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Snowbirds and Coyotes by KM Elkes After the death of her husband, Betty drives south from Ohio to the Arizona desert.

Very happy indeed to have a short story commissioned by the BBC! Broadcast 3.45pm July 11th, on Radio 4 and Sunday 13th at 11.45pm

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BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE ARTIST DIRECTORY | Silvia Bignami

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Draw? This is your countdown! ⏳⚡️Less than a month left to submit your masterpiece to the Beautiful Bizarre #Art Prize. Don't let this incredible opportunity slip away. Show the world your exceptional talent!

Enter at beautifulbizarreartprize.art

Entry: Hiroshi Hayakawa - #Drawing Award

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Let your thoughts drift into this dreamy illustration 'A Fog Tale' by María Gordon.

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Please consider supporting a LGBTQ+ book by an author in the LGBTQ+ community!

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Please consider supporting a LGBTQ+ book by an author in the LGBTQ+ community! Thanks so much 🥰

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Digital art of a baltimore oriole on colorful flowers and light blue background.

baltimore oriole 💐

ファミマ×ブイズコラボうれし〜

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Short haired white queer in black “protect queer youth” rainbow fronted tshirt, tattooed arms, bookshelf behind them

Pride is a riot.

Love when editors ask me for art for their covers--

#MusicChallenge
#JuneGloom
6/21
Hail Mary Mallon, "Horse Flakes"
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TIME SIGNATURES | Vikki C. It’s easy to make up in the orchard, under the anxious rain of blossoms. Little thought about our appearance, always kindly compensated by god-light. A sacred knife cutting away the parts of our lives which obstruct love, as a seamstress switches to clear thread to render the wound inconspicuous. Elsewhere, the gold pears will themselves to fall, before our fingers grow impatient. A mother is always near, a child, too. Both quiet and content—they bend instead of reach—to collect the fallen fruit. Hours which gleam with an older devotion. Effort catches, a sigh is released. We both know this is the bluest heartsong —a ritual of dirt, salt and modesty. Like grooming the mare’s smooth neck, before turning her out to pasture each morning. Seeing your face in its exquisite sheen, untying the slip knot and watching her grow small with distance— becoming an untended prayer in the mist.

Weekend gift: my Grain contributor copies arrived 🤍

Grateful to see "Time Signatures" in print alongside a wealth of talent from Canada and around the globe. An exquisite issue 🇨🇦🌍

My thanks again to EIC Elena Bentley and Poetry Editor @taidgh.bsky.social

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Thanks, Diagram for publishing "Sick Day" thediagram.com/25_1/kerchev...

Interview: Jesse Lee Kercheval - CRAFT Poet, translator, memoirist, fiction writer, and visual artist Jesse Lee Kercheval’s recently released graphic memoir French Girl portrays seventeen episodes from throughout Kercheval’s life, rendered...

Thanks Craft! www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/30/i...